Posted by sigismund on September 21, 2011, at 17:11:14
In reply to Really like a bird on a wire, 1972, posted by floatingbridge on September 21, 2011, at 13:08:18
I lost track of him when I gave up on popular music around 1985, and it was only much later I came across all the wonderful middle period stuff.
I was, for example, blown away by 'Give me back the Berlin wall, Give me Stalin and St Paul, I've seen the future brother, it is murder', and 'I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons', which sounded inspired when I first heard them around 5 years ago.
I had my first Leonard Cohen record in 1971, and I always associate 'So Long Marianne' with some hallucinogen I must have been taking, especially at the point of 'We met when we were almost young'. I still feel a frission of fear and excitement and joy when I hear that.
It's 40 years ago. Who would have thought it?
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